Trade-Related Bills, Resolutions Introduced on March 17
On March 17, 2011, the following trade-related bills were introduced:
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- Infrastructure bank. A bill to facilitate efficient investments and financing of infrastructure projects and new job creation through the establishment of an American Infrastructure Financing Authority, to provide for an extension of the exemption from the alternative minimum tax treatment for certain tax-exempt bonds, and for other purposes. (S. 652)
- Infrastructure transparency. A bill to improve the accountability and transparency in infrastructure spending by requiring a life-cycle cost analysis of major infrastructure projects, providing the flexibility to use alternate infrastructure type bidding procedures to reduce project costs, and requiring the use of design standards to improve efficiency and save taxpayer dollars. (S. 615)
- Synthetic drugs. A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to place synthetic drugs in Schedule I. (S. 605)
- Egypt & Tunisia. A bill to promote the strengthening of the private sector in Egypt and Tunisia. (S. 618)
- Regional transport. A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to incorporate regional transportation planning organizations into statewide transportation planning, and for other purposes. (S. 625)
- Shipping investment. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the shipping investment withdrawal rules in section 955 and to provide an incentive to reinvest foreign shipping earnings in the U.S. (S. 626)
- Transparency. A bill to increase the transparency of the Federal Government, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1144)
- Trade names. A bill to modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names; to the Committee on the Judiciary. (H.R. 1166)